Myakka City is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 in southeastern Manatee County

Manatee County, Florida

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, Florida

Florida

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, United States

United States

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. It lies along State Road 70 southeast of the city of Bradenton

Bradenton, Florida

Bradenton is a city in Manatee County, Florida, United States. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's 2007 population to be 53,471. Bradenton is the largest Principal City of the Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2007 estimated population of 682,833...

, the county seat

County seat

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 of Manatee County. Its elevation is 43 feet (13.1 m), and it is located at 27°20′59"N 82°9′41"W (27.3497671, -82.1614780). Although Myakka is unincorporated, it has a post office

Post office

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, with the ZIP code

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 of 34251; the ZCTA

ZIP Code Tabulation Area

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 for ZIP code 34251 had a population of 4,239 at the 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

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.

See also

• Mayaca (tribe)
  Mayaca (tribe)
  Mayaca was the name used by the Spanish to refer to an Indian tribe in central Florida, to the principal village of that tribe and to the chief of that village in the 1560s. The Mayacas occupied an area in the upper St. Johns River valley just to the south of Lake George...
  
  , which uses a variant spelling but is pronounced the same as Myakka
• Port Mayaca, Florida, a settlement on the eastern shore of Lake Okeechobee